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= Integrated Operations in the High North - Joint Industry Project =
=== ''Design, implement and demonstrate the digital platform for next generation Integrated Operations'' ===
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'''''Twenty-two companies from different parts in the value chain have joined forces to design, implement and demonstrate a reliable and robust ICT architecture to be used for petroleum exploration and production in remote settings, such as the Arctic. The project was active from May 2008 until May 2012. Open standards were used to ensure interoperability, to facilitate integration and to transfer data. Combined with advances in information sharing and knowledge management technologies, this readily improves the basis for collaborative decision making and thereby facilitates more effective work processes.'''''
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== Background ==
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=== Arctic region ===
The Arctic region holds vast amounts of extractive energy resources. Most of these resources are located offshore in environmentally very sensitive areas possibly beneath thick ice and/or in deep water. Weather and distance from existing infrastructure and centers of population add additional operational and logistic challenges.
=== Second generation Integrated Operations ===
In order to meet all these requirements and at the same time maintain profitable operations, the industry needs to create new field development and operational concepts that include heavily instrumented facilities. These operational concepts will be often based on a lean local organization supported remotely from a combination of an asset organization, multi-asset support centers and external expert centers. This is what has been called the second generation of Integrated Operations.
=== Digital platform ===
An important prerequisite for this development is a robust and secure digital infrastructure as a platform for effective and efficient data and information exchange and decision making (see figure to the right). To enable collaboration across boundaries in a smooth and efficient manner, a digital platform based on open standards is required, thus allowing for a much higher degree of interoperability across applications, disciplines, geographic locations and organizations than is common today.
== Overview of the project ==
=== Overall goal ===
The overall goal for the Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN) project is to design, implement and demonstrate a reliable and robust architecture for Integrated Operations Generation 2 (IO G2). Existing open standards are used and extended when required and new standards are incubated to ensure interoperability, to facilitate integration and to transfer data. To make data-to-information-to-decisions work processes more efficient, information and knowledge models based on open standards are also developed and used.
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=== Project layout ===
The IOHN project is set up as six activities organized in a matrix (see figure to the right); three related to the digital platform and three related to pilots for different business domains. Within the different business domains, architectural relevant use cases have been defined. These use cases form the basis for extracting the requirements for the digital platform and are used later on to test (parts of) the digital platform and to validate the value potential for IO G2.
=== Digital platform ===
The digital platform, being a crucial enabler for IO G2, forms a natural foundation for the IOHN project. Besides an activity on the integration platform itself, two additional activities are defined working on two very important aspects of the architecture for IO G2. A first additional activity is working on the integration of information, i.e. making sure that data and information may be used seamlessly across boundaries using open standards based on ISO 15926, POSC Caesar Association’s oil and gas ontology and semantic web technologies. A second additional activity focuses on specific safety and security aspects for highly interconnected and software intensive systems.
=== Use cases ===
Use cases within three different business domains are defined in the IOHN project. The use cases are used to extract the requirements for and to test and validate the value potential of the digital platform through pilots.
The ''drilling and completion use cases'' focus on seamless interoperability through open standards at the drilling control level. There is currently a gap between available real-time data and a cost-effective and timely utilization of it during drilling operations. Improvements will come from systems that are closing the loop, i.e. by automatically analyzing the real-time data stream, autonomous decision making and directly intervening with the drilling control system. Such systems that may integrate with external service providers rely on standardized, machine-readable knowledge of the drilling domain. This will lead to a better safeguarding of operational limits, less unproductive time and, in the end, better and more efficient well placement. It is also a stepping stone towards concepts as an unmanned subsea autonomous drilling rig that may be a game changer under Arctic conditions.
The ''reservoir and production use cases'' focus on the detection of sand production and associated erosion management, which are common challenges for the industry. Sand production may constitute severe safety, financial and environmental risks as well as lost opportunities. Within the arctic setting, the criticality of these risks only increases and it is therefore crucial to have trustworthy data with respect to both measurements of sand volumes as well as reliable methodologies for erosion monitoring and predictions. One of the possibilities that arise from the digital platform is increased collaboration and interoperability, which is a key characteristic for IOG2. The pilot is exploring this opportunity by facilitating new work processes for an expert competence center supporting several assets with production-related issues.
The ''operations and maintenance use cases'' focus on Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) of an environment sensitive part of a subsea control system, and coupling this to the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. The objective is to maximize production regularity within the limits of safe operations. Condition-based maintenance is usually split into corrective maintenance (after equipment has broken down), preventive maintenance (routinely performed inspections) and predictive maintenance (analyses and predictions of the equipment’s status), where the latter is assumed to be the most cost efficient when executed correctly. The pilot aims to move the maintenance processes from preventive and corrective maintenance to predictive maintenance by combining aggregated sensor information with ERP systems and advanced planning facilities, focusing on a subsea system.
== Status of the project ==
The IOHN project was active from May 2008 until May 2012. A total of [wiki:IOHN/participants twenty-two companies] from different parts in the petroleum exploration and production value chain were participating in the project. The IOHN project consortium included operators, service providers and software vendors. In addition, the Norwegian Defence was working with the project to resolve common infrastructure and communication challenges. Financing came from the participants and the Research Council of Norway ([http://www.forskningsradet.no/en/Home+page/1177315753906 RCN]) for parts of the project ([http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Prosjekt&cid=1207296035860&pagename=verdikt/Hovedsidemal&p=1226993814962 GOICT] and [http://www.forskningsradet.no/servlet/Satellite?c=Prosjekt&cid=1198060412649&pagename=ForskningsradetNorsk/Hovedsidemal&p=1181730334233 AutoConRig]).
The project was managed by Det Norske Veritas ([http://www.dnv.com DNV]).
== More information ==
For more information about the IOHN project, please contact Frédéric Verhelst, project manager, at I N F O @ I O H N . O R G.
A brochure describing the project can be found [attachment:IOHNFolderMarch2010.pdf here] (PDF, 2.5 MB).
== Final report ==
The project results are classified as ''project internal'', with the exception of a final report (250 p) that was made public by the Steering Committee and can be found [https://www.posccaesar.org/raw-attachment/wiki/IOHN/IOHN-final-report-public-web.pdf here] (PDF, 19 MB).
== Some relevant links and articles ==
=== Articles about the project ===
* [http://www.worldoil.com/ World Oil] [http://www.worldoil.com/CurrentIssue.aspx October 2010 Issue] [http://www.worldoil.com/A-digital-platform-for-real-time-operations-in-the-High-North-october-2010.html A digital platform for real-time operations in the High North]. Retrieved on 2010-10-07.
* [http://oilit.com/ Oil IT Journal] [http://oilit.com/2journal/4php/4_builddoc.php?year=2010&month=3 March 2010 Issue] (2010-04-13) [http://www.oilit.com/2journal/2article/1003_16.htm Integrated Operations in the High North — mid term report]. Retrieved on 2010-04-13.
* [http://www.spe.org SPE] [http://www.intelligentenergyevent.com/ Intelligent Energy Conference], [http://www.intelligentenergyevent.com/page.cfm/action=Seminars/SeminarID=388 Transformational Solutions session] (2010-03-24). Digital platform for the next generation IO: a prerequisite for the high north ([http://www.onepetro.org/mslib/app/Preview.do?paperNumber=SPE-127550-MS&societyCode=SPE SPE 127550]). Retrieved on 2010-03-24.
* Oil&Gas Journal (2010-02-04). [http://www.ogj.com/index/article-display/4660624989/articles/oil-gas-journal/drilling-production-2/2010/02/iadc_spe_-project/QP129867/cmpid=EnlDrillingFebruary82010.html IADC/SPE: Project is devising autopilot drilling standards]. Retrieved on 2010-02-09.
* Rigzone E&P News (2008-08-26). [http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=65883 Norway Takes Reign to Provide Next Generation Integrated Operations]. Retrieved on 2009-05-08.
* Digital Energy Journal (2008-08-27). [http://www.digitalenergyjournal.com/displaynews.php?NewsID=758&PHPSESSID=9hhp6qe4qqpi7qnbgffgqhv1h7 Norway developing next generation Integrated Operations]. Retrieved on 2009-05-08.
* E&P Magazine (2008-12-2). [http://www.epmag.com/Magazine/2008/12/item24047.php Offshore R&D pushes the limits]. Retrieved on 2009-05-08.
* Wikipedia. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Operations_in_the_High_North Integrated Operations in the High North]. Retrieved on 2009-05-12.
=== Links to relevant external sources ===
* [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki POSC Caesar Association], the custodian of the [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/ISO15926 ISO 15926 Oil and Gas ontology]
* brochure: [http://www.olf.no/getfile.php/zKonvertert/www.olf.no/Rapporter/Dokumenter/070919%20IO%20and%20Ontology%20-%20Brosjyre.pdf Integrated Operations and the Oil and Gas Ontology] by the Norwegian Oil Industry Association ([http://www.olf.no/io/ OLF])
* W3C workshop on [http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report.html Semantic Web in Oil and Gas industry], Houston, December 9-10, 2008. [http://www.w3.org/2008/12/ogws-report#papers Position papers] from several participants in IOHN.
* [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/PCA/SemanticDays2009/AboutSemanticDays Semantic Days 2009], Stavanger, May 18-20, 2009. One [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/PCA/SemanticDays2009#Session6:SemantictechnologyforIOGeneration2 session] is devoted to IOHN.
* [http://www.ioconf.no/2009/ IO 09 Science and Practice], Trondheim, September 29-30, 2009. One [http://ioconf.no/2009/parallel6 session] is devoted to IOHN.
* [https://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/PCA/SemanticDays2010 Semantic Days 2010], Stavanger, May 31-June 2, 2010. One [http://www.posccaesar.org/wiki/SD2010-IOHN-Project-session session] is devoted to IOHN.
* [http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=1843966 Integrated Operations in the High North] group on [http://www.linkedin.com/ LinkedIn] (participants only).